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"&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Your teams. Your favorite writers. Wherever you want them. Personalize SI with our new App. Install on iOS (iOS&amp;nbsp;or Android)&lt;/em&gt;\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;SEATTLE \u2014 One of the biggest single stories of the U.S.\u2019s run to the Copa Am\u00E9rica quarterfinals has been coach Jurgen Klinsmann\u2019s willingness to stick with a core group of players from game to game. Klinsmann has used the same starting lineup for three straight matches, the first time the U.S. has done that since 1930.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;For a U.S. team that had been lacking a critical mass of core players the last two years, that consistency has been a huge development. But in the wake of DeAndre Yedlin\u2019s red card suspension, Klinsmann will have to make at least one change on Thursday when the U.S. meets Ecuador at CenturyLink Field (9:30 pm ET, FS1, Univision).\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The most likely replacement is Michael Orozco, who replaced Yedlin at right back against Paraguay. Even though Orozco has played little for Tijuana\u2019s first team lately, Klinsmann explained here on Wednesday why he has put so much trust in the 30-year-old Orange, Calif., native.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\u201CHe\u2019s an absolutely logical inclusion in this roster,\u201D Klinsmann said, \u201Cbecause he\u2019s always been there when we\u2019ve needed Michael. He\u2019s an outstanding individual, very focused. He\u2019s been doing his job down south of the border on the highest level.\u201D\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\u201CI went down there myself. I watched Tijuana play Monterrey \u2026 He went through a tough stretch there. He didn\u2019t play for the first team for quite a bit, but he played every reserve team game and then played their game prior to their first team. So I saw him play. I saw that he\u2019s in shape, he\u2019s good. He\u2019s not just breaking in right now. Michael has always been there for the team. He has never complained when he has been left out for a World Cup qualifier for a specific game. Every time he came in, he did his job.\u201D\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Other possibilities besides Orozco for right back include Geoff Cameron and Fabian Johnson, but those seem unlikely since it would require making more than one change in the lineup. Slotting in Orozco is the logical choice given the personnel Klinsmann has on hand.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Orozco did fine when he replaced Yedlin against Paraguay, but he is a clear downgrade from a speed perspective. That could matter against an Ecuador outfit that has significant speed on the flanks (in Jefferson Montero and Antonio Valencia) and at center forward (in Enner Valencia). Klinsmann had said after Paraguay\u2019s game that he wanted his team to have the \u201Ccourage\u201D to play a high back line in the knockout rounds, but it made sense to ask if that was still the case given the situation against Ecuador.\r\n\r\n\r\n\t&lt;strong&gt;STRAUS: Why quarterfinal is a big benchmark for Ecuador, too&lt;/strong&gt;\r\n\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\u201COh, absolutely,\u201D Klinsmann said. \u201CI think it\u2019s important that you kind of stick to your beliefs in what you want to build. Obviously, you adjust to certain moments in the game. If it requires that we drop a second, we can do that too. I think we can hit our opponents with some counterbreaks the same way they might want do it with us. We are good in that as well.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\u201CBut in general I think our back line is doing a tremendous job so far by keeping it higher up to go eye-to-eye with them and continue in that learning curve that we started a while ago. We tell them tomorrow: \u2018Be courageous. Go at them. It\u2019s a 90-minute battle.\u2019\u201D\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It\u2019s a huge opportunity. The U.S. will be playing before a pro-U.S. crowd here, even though high ticket prices mean that only 43,000 of a 67,000 tickets had been sold as of Wednesday afternoon. But a return to the Copa Am\u00E9rica semifinals for the first time since 1995 on home soil would give the U.S. the chance to go viral among the U.S. population heading into a likely final four game against Lionel Messi and Argentina next week.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;First things first, though. Ecuador can be a dangerous team, but if the U.S. can neutralize &lt;em&gt;La Tri&lt;/em&gt;\u2019s speed on the flanks and down the middle, there\u2019s no reason the Americans can\u2019t continue their inspiring resurgence.\r\n&lt;/p&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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